Alan Tudyk
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Born | Alan Wray Tudyk |
Website | alantudyk.com |
Alan Wray Tudyk (born March 16, 1971) is an American stage, film, and television actor. Tudyk was born in El Paso, Texas and raised in Plano, Texas, where he attended Plano Senior High School. Tudyk studied drama at Lon Morris College (winning the Academic Excellence award for Drama) and Juilliard.
Film and television
Tudyk is best known for his role as "Steve the Pirate" in the 2004 comedy Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story. He also starred as Hoban "Wash" Washburne in the cult science fiction/western television series Firefly, and reprised that role in the feature film Serenity. In addition he also played a gay German drug addict in the film 28 Days (film) and in a recent episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation played a convicted pedophile.
According to Tudyk's IMDb biography, upon hearing that Firefly was cancelled, Tudyk threw a "We Don't Work for FOX Anymore" party for the cast and crew of the show.
Partial filmography
- 35 Miles from Normal (1997)
- Patch Adams (1998)
- Wonder Boys (2000)
- 28 Days (2000)
- Strangers with Candy (2000) TV
- Frasier (2000) TV
- A Knight's Tale (2001)
- Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
- Ice Age (2002)
- Firefly (2002-2002) TV
- Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)
- I, Robot (2004)
- Arrested Development (2005) TV
- Into the West (2005) TV
- Serenity (2005)
- Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)
- CSI:Crime Scene Investigation (2006) TV
Stage
In 1999, Tudyk made his Broadway debut in Epic Proportions. He was also in Wonder of the World, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Misalliance, Oedipus and Bunny Bunny[1]. Tudyk was in Spamalot in 2005, from June to December 2005, filling in for Hank Azaria.
References
- ^ Gans, Andrew (2006-04-18). "Butler, Tudyk, Kind, Golden, Huffman cast in reading of musical Xanadu". Playbill. Retrieved 2006-04-22.
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External links
- Alan Tudyk at IMDb
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- Alan Tudyk at the Internet Broadway Database
- Alan-Tudyk.com, un-official site with news, information, and a gallery of hundreds of photos
- AlanTudyk.net, a fan run site with up to date news, information and original content.
- Star to Fill in for Azaria on Monty Python's Spamalot During Actor's Hiatus, from the Playbill website